New York City, Princeton, Philadelphia,
Richmond, Washington (DC).

December 12-22, 2007


Bernhard Gal will present concerts and a lecture in New York City and other cities along the East Coast.

This tour is partly being supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City.

Many thanks to Paula Matthusen, Phill Niblock, Seth Cluett, Jesse Kudler, and Scott Allison!


December 12, 2007, 17:00 New York City
Lecture
New York University (NYU), Department of Music, New York City
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/music/


December 13, 2007, 21:00 Princeton, NJ
Concert
Rocky-Mathey Theater, Madison Hall, Princeton, NJ
Also featuring Audrey Chen, Bryan Eubanks and Joe Foster
http://www.ffmup.org


December 15, 2007, 20:00 Philadelphia, PA
Concert
Bowerbird, Philadelphia, PA
Also featuring Jesse Kudler / Scott Allison, and Phill Sheldon.
http://www.bowerbird.org


December 16, 2007, 19:00 Richmond, VA
Concert
Ghostly Print Gallery, Richmond, VA
Also featuring Jesse Kudler + Jason Talbot,
Scott Allison + Caustic Castle + Andy Hayleck,
and Stephen Vitiello.


December 17, 2007, Washington, DC
Concert
Velvet Lounge, Washington, DC
Also featuring Jesse Kudler, Scott Allison, Scott Verrastro.
http://www.velvetloungedc.com


December 18, 2007, 21:00 New York City
Concert @ Experimental Intermedia
Part of the Annual 'Festival with no fancy name'.
Online radio transmission on free103point9.
http://www.experimentalintermedia.org


Some Press:

Citypaper, Washington, DC

Bernhard Gal

Critic's Pick
By Michael Byrne

A rarity indeed, the insanely prolific sound craftsman Bernhard Gal's in Washington as part of a brief U.S. tour from his native Austria. Often creating multidisciplinary pieces with light, shape, and sound-collaborative installations, mainly-tonight's performance is billed simply as a concert. Expectations are all but worthless at shows like this, where music becomes less the object than a sort of aural alchemy that neither "works" nor "fails"-just is. Try to imagine yourself somewhere in the city, as spare as a walk down lower Falls Road or as cluttered as the waterfront. Only fictitious. In that scene how much do you hear? Probably not much. Now imagine creating the background sound-all of it-from this scene, from scratch. It's sorta like that.

http://www.citypaper.com/calendar/event.asp?whatID=100183

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Washington City Paper, Washington, DC

Bernhard Gal

Monday, Dec. 17, at the Velvet Lounge
By Aaron Leitko
Posted: December 12, 2007

They say that a watched pot never boils, but they’re wrong. Eventually, it does; there just aren’t too many people who are willing to sit around and prove it. Austrian composer and sound-artist Bernhard Gal, however, is willing not only to wait on the pot—he’s interested in making art out of the whole frustrating process. For Gal’s 2000 installation piece, “Zhu Shui,” the composer placed four kettles on hot plates in the center of a room and allowed them to make music together. Such is the spirit of much of Gal’s laptop-music output. Unexpectedly pleasant sounds randomly ring out amid vast acres of silence, and the most obvious sensation is simply one of time slowly passing by—like water waiting to boil. Gal performs at 7 p.m. the Velvet Lounge, 915 U St. NW. $9. (202) 462-3213.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=34260